Walkerton celebrates Play Music on the Porch Day

September 4, 2025 @ 7:12 amNews, Walkerton Herald-Times

The focal point for Walkerton’s Play Music on the Porch Day on the last Saturday in August was Market Garden Park. This year’s crowd was bigger than ever, as the event becomes more widely known. Play Music on the Porch Day is an international event that poses the question of what would happen if everyone just stopped what they were doing and spent the day playing music on the porch. In Walkerton, the event was celebrated at several locations including Market Garden Park. (Pauline Kerr photos)

WALKERTON – Walkerton marked Play Music on the Porch Day in style this year. While the focal point wasn’t a porch, but a park with a small stage that could pass as a porch, especially surrounded by shade trees and happy people (and a canine or two) on lawn chairs and blankets, there were other…

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Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Pauline Kerr is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter with the Walkerton Herald-Times. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada.